Although he is now living in Luo Xuan's body, it does not mean that Lin Chen has lost his perception of the outside world.
With his spiritual sense, he can naturally "see" the outside clearly.
It is clearly early morning, but it is like a bloody sunset; above the nine sky, the boundless black clouds are like the skin color of a rotting corpse, but they persist for a long time; and the distorted aura is everywhere in the sky, with a strong and strange aura...
All of this gave Lin Chen the feeling of being in ruins after a great war, with rotting corpses everywhere.
Death, shadows, strangeness... are everywhere.
It gave him a completely different feeling from the original world, as if he had changed the world.
Obviously, this place has undergone unprecedented changes at some point in the past few years.
So much so that it has evolved into what it is now, just like the scene after a catastrophe.
But if Lin Chen remembered correctly, before he fell asleep, it was the time when the Immortal Alliance that dominated the world was most prosperous.
So what kind of big change happened? How long did he sleep again? So that the world has become what it is now?
It even made him feel like he was in a trance when he woke up and saw the changes in the world and the vicissitudes of the world. He suddenly felt like he was in another world.
But the strange thing is, why does he always feel that the black fog and the distorted spiritual energy in front of him always feel inexplicably familiar, as if...where have he seen it before?
"How many years has this world been like this?"
Lin Chen was not stupid enough to directly ask the other party how many years he had been sleeping.
After all, it was impossible for Luo Xuan to know when he fell into deep sleep, so he could only estimate the years that pushed him into deep sleep based on the time and experience of the current big change.
"Ah?" Luo Xuan was stunned for a moment when he heard Lin Chen's doubts, and then seemed to react and quickly replied, "Grandpa, this situation has been going on for hundreds of years."
"Hundreds of years?!" Lin Chen's tone seemed to be filled with surprise.
A dream that lasted for hundreds of years, among his two lifetimes, could only be compared to the time when he traveled through time.
But what puzzled him even more was:
"A catastrophe that can defeat the Immortal Alliance with the God-Transforming Heavenly Lord sitting at its command is absolutely unparalleled in its weirdness and pollution."
"But now, only a hundred years have passed. Although this land is still devastated, the pollution has become extremely thin."
"As a result, although your current essence has changed a lot compared to the mortals before the great catastrophe, it has not been completely distorted and deformed. Even your sanity can be preserved. This... is a bit unreasonable. "
Although in his perception, the outside environment is indeed very strange now, and there are all kinds of distorted evil things wandering in the wilderness.
However, the three states of water on this land are still fog and solid. Although the critical temperature of its change is different from before, it has not reached an outrageous level.
This shows that the law has not changed much, at least not to the point of subversion.
That being the case, how could a catastrophe caused by this level of pollution defeat the Immortal Alliance, which has a large number of Nascent Souls and cultivators who master the laws of the Great Dao?
According to Lin Chen's estimation, the law deviation caused by this level of pollution can be reversed by his promotion to Nascent Soul.
But it can actually make the Immortal Alliance who control the Heaven-Shaking Universe Formation helpless, and even lose control of the world. This is as outrageous as a modern army losing to a primitive tribe...
Seemingly realizing that Lin Chen had misunderstood something, Luo Xuan quickly explained:
"No, grandpa, you misunderstood. This is the unique scenery of the Black Mist Continent. On the periphery of the continent, it is still a world controlled by the Immortal Alliance!"
"Huh? Black Mist Continent?" Lin Chen in his mind frowned when he heard this, "Tell me the cause and effect of the matter."
Therefore, Luo Xuan risked his life and sneaked into the Black Mist Continent, just to obtain extraordinary power, as well as the causes and consequences.
"A hundred years ago, two demon giants and the Immortal Alliance Yuanying fought near Lingyuan Island, and then the pollution caused by the aftermath of the battle created this continent?"
Lin Chen repeated this sentence, feeling inexplicably familiar and ridiculous.
Lingyuan Island, Immortal Alliance Yuanying, Pollution, Black Mist, and the two...
Fuck!
I just said, why is this thing so familiar?
Isn't this the black mist pollution caused by the dreamy snow that I am fighting with that Immortal Alliance Nascent Soul, the female cultivator in the umbrella? !
I don’t know what the purpose of this thing is. The Immortal Alliance actually deliberately created a continent to carry this pollution, just to conduct some kind of experiment?
Lin Chen instantly guessed the cause and effect of everything.
Fortunately, he thought that he had slept for tens of thousands of years, so that the world had changed, but it turned out that he was just in an experimental field.
But hundreds of years are long enough.
'I never thought that just once I left, I would fall into a dream. When I was about to wake up again, I don't know how many years had passed...'
No wonder the ancients would lament: There is no time to practice, and I will live alone forever. '
'With just one practice, I don't know how many years have passed outside. All the people, things, objects, and scenery in the past have disappeared in time, and even the heaven and earth will change into something completely different from the past...'
Lin Chen couldn't help but sigh softly in his heart.
No wonder people say that immortality is lonely. Perhaps for monks, it is just a simple retreat.
But for ordinary people, it is a period of time that cannot be spanned by life.
Under such circumstances, the so-called family affection, friendship, love... all seem so insignificant over a long enough period of time.
And when a person doesn't even have any external emotional support, what can be the inner pillar of their survival?
'I finally understand why the more advanced monks are, the more persistent they are and the more desperate they are for the Tao in their hearts, because this is the only way for them to anchor their humanity without completely losing their emotions and even their thoughts. Way……'
Lin Chen suddenly understood why mortals pursue eternal love, eternal life, and eternal life, and why monks pursue immortality, the sun and the moon, the eternal road, and other things that last forever with the world and the universe.
That's because in a changing world, finding something unchanging to anchor oneself may be the driving force for life to continue on.
And the pursuit of that eternal and unchanging soul, so that it can last forever, maybe... this is the state of mind cultivation that is often referred to in the cultivation of immortality.
"Grandpa, what's wrong with you?" Sensing Lin Chen's silence, Luo Xuan couldn't help but ask.
"It's okay." Lin Chen sighed softly, his tone becoming a little emotional and ethereal, "I'm just a little emotional. When I woke up from the dream, it has been a hundred years, and now I am back in the world again."
(End of chapter)
